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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2014
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert F. Shepherd, Brooktondale, NY (US);
Adam Stokes, Watertown, MA (US);
Stephen A. Morin, Lincoln, NE (US);
Ludovico Cademartiri, Somerville, MA (US);
Jacob Freake, Willimantic, CT (US);
Rui Nunes, Somerville, MA (US);
Xin Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing a soft robot is provided. In one system, a robotic device includes a flexible body having a fluid chamber, where a portion of the flexible body includes an elastically extensible material and a portion of the flexible body is strain limiting relative to the elastically extensible material. The robotic device can further include a pressurizing inlet in fluid communication with the fluid chamber, and a pressurizing device in fluid communication with the pressurizing inlet, the pressurizing device including a reaction chamber configured to accommodate a gas-producing chemical reaction for providing pressurized gas to the pressurizing inlet.